“Of course I did,” he told DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne tha God. “This is an exclusive. I didn’t have an emcee name, but I made a lot of beats. … This is very embarrassing — it was Spindrome. Like syndrome, but spin. It was wack, dude.”

Hill, whose directorial debut “Mid90s” comes out Friday, realized he wasn’t a skilled rapper, but that didn’t stop him from giving it a try.

“I’m not a good emcee or a good producer – I mean I kind of made fire beats – but I still had an MPC [drum machine] and was making beats for six years.”

“Mid90s” tells the story of Stevie, a 13-year-old growing up in Los Angeles in the 1990s who is able to escape his troubled home life after falling in with a group of young skateboarders.

Rap music is an integral part of Stevie and his friends’ lives and Hill said it was important for him to treat the music he loves with respect.

“Hip-hop, like skateboarding, is always misrepresented in film,” he explained. “It’s always shown — people driving through the hood or popping champagne — as some exploitative dumb stereotype. And for me it was it was very important to make an elegant, honest, emotional film, that showed hip-hop as what it is for me, which is the emotional backbone of my childhood.”